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Trump plays 'game-show' tricks with donors as insiders raise doubts: report
Trump Is Not Choosing a Successor. He Is Running a Court.Trump’s latest chatter about making JD Vance his heir apparent is being sold as succession intrigue, but the reporting points to something uglier: a sitting president using donor access, public ambiguity, and factional jealousy to keep everyone orbiting him. The Washington Post says Trump has told donors to “elect JD,” while advisers and allies still doubt anything is settled, and Trump keeps reopening the contest with Marco Rubio. That is the story. The rest is noise.The Real Power Is Still TrumpTrump holds the institutional leverage…
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